The global universal caregiver : imagining women's liberation in the new millennium

Allison Weir

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    Abstract

    The article examines the struggle of women to balance the demands of paid work and child care. A feminist critical theory needs to ask what kind of society could unlock the global care chains, and liberate women from the global demands of the double day. In their work on the ideology of independence and dependency in the American society, Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon analyze the construction of the welfare state around the ideology of the breadwinner, the worker, as the ideal-typical person, the model of independence against which all other types are measured. Dependency is a category constructed through ideologies of class, race and gender: the icon of dependency in America is the single black mother on welfare, who combines the characteristically dependent attributes of women, blacks and the poor.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)308-330
    Number of pages23
    JournalConstellations : an International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory
    Volume12
    Issue number3
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Keywords

    • women's rights
    • welfare state

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